GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 8 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LEVER BROS.’ MONOPOLY. London, January 7. The Government has granted Lever Bros, a twenty-one years’ monopo'y oi the palm oil factories over a radius of 3J- square miles in Sierra Leone. Negotiations are proceeding for s;milar monopolies in Southern Nigeria 01 the Gold Coast. THE FOREIGN LEGION. London, January 7. Five Frenchmen have been, arrested at Metz,, disguised as dealers, foi offering Germans 350 fanes each ii they would enlist in the Forcgn Legion. A WINDFALL. London, January 7. Dillingham, a Staffordshire miner, won £46,000 in a Hungarian '■•ctevy. HANDS ACROSS THE SEA. London, January 7. Sir John Henniker-Heaten n a letter to the newspapers says that 1,536.000 money orders valued at £4,309.000 were issued to the colonies and dependencies last year. £2,513,000 was received from the United States. Australia sent £497,000 New Zealand £244,000 and Canada £2,290,000. The mass of the rnonev was for relatives, and it was a iplondid evidence for the love and affection from kin beyond the seas. BURIED ALIVE. Paris, January / A wealthy old man at Grenoble displayed a purse m a care, and when returning on a lonely road a thief clubbed and buried him. The robber had prepared a grave, which be dug in a field. The victim’s fate was a mystery until blood marks were traced and the body exhumed. A post mortem showed that he was luried alive. “OVER THE ODDS.” (Received S.O a.m.) London Janua’y 7. The post office at Wye has been flooded with band.mds of Meaning, tns telegrams for the purpose affecting the starting price of racelne-es, preventing bookmakers i-ansm tt ng money better to the racecourse, ihushortening the odds. STEAMER ON FIRE. London, January 7. The steamer Can Macßae, from Australia to London, has arrived at Malta with her coal bunkers .afire. CAPETOWN UNIVERSITY. Paris, January 7. At a meeting of the South African Committee, Senator Pauliat presiding, the sum of £2200 was voted towards a chair of the French language and literature in the Capetown University.